Another Dell laptop has gone to the great warehouse in the sky, wafted aloft on a cloud of smoke produced by a burning battery. The incident took place last week in China.
Details of the Dell destruction were posted on Chinese-language blog HiPDA, along with a heap of pictures showing the blaze and its aftermath. Here are a …

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Not quite what it seems

That laptop looks very much like a Dell Lattitude -Either a D800 or D810

Either way, that is NOT where the battery sits. The site of that fire is the drive bay, and although you can fit a 2nd battery into the drive bay, none of the drive bay batteries have been subject to a recall.

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@ Kenny Millar

All the Latitude x00 or x10 series laptops at Dell did in fact have the battery on the front-right hand side of the base. I know as we have a number of each of these models in service at the moment, and I had to check them all for the battery failure.

But I agree, this does look like a set up! Who rests their laptop on a fire-proof tray like that?

Groundhog Day !!!

Ah yes, the Sony battery recall story - recalls from Dell, Acer, Toshiba, Apple, Lenovo, Panasonic and , er Sony. Quiet day in the office El Reg? - The exploding battery story a perennial favourite - that said this one does a little more little petrol enduced

Dell battery, even?

Of course, there are a lot of non-official batteries available for all sorts of machines all over Asia - I don't think Dell will be organising any recalls unless they prove the battery really was an official one!

what makes it look bad

is the grimace/grin from the man opposite the camera however I hasten to add that some people always do that when there is a picture taken and this looks to be a flash moment. It's normally frowned on to burn stuff like laptops in most offices and this looks to be an office if it

First off, it's clearly a keyboard tray. Secondly, when all I have available is a keyboard tray on a too-tall desk, I've been known to use my laptop like that, too. So that's at least two data points (me and Mr. William's friend) for you.